Stamp Art

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Jan Veth

[Netherlands] (b 1864/d 1925)

Self Portrait

"Jan Pieter Veth was a Dutch painter, poet, art critic and university lecturer. He is especially noted as a portrait painter. (..) Veth received his art education at the Amsterdam 'Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten'. (..) With several of his fellow students he founded the St. Luke group. From 1885 he worked with the painter Anton Mauve in Laren. (..) He designed the cover for "De Kleine Johannes", contributing to the development of book-art in the Netherlands. (..) Veth was member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1923."

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Biography : Wikipedia

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Photo : www.pinterest.com

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Netherlands 1924/1926 "Queen Wilhelmina" (14,1) [Photo] Sc(147,...,160) [ Images credit of Stamp Collecting World ]

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Roger Vansevenant

[Belgium] (b 1922)

Photo by Anne Claus

"Roger Vansevenant was born in Poperinge on August 2, 1922. He studied ancient humanities and philosophy but his Artistic career started in 1945 with some graphic work. Two years later he is co-founder of a printing company, a family company that wants to set high standards. In the meantime, he has further qualified as a graphic artist and as a photographer. (..) He has been practicing photography intensely for a quarter of a century. He was not so much interested in photography as a technical support in designing, but in his own visual language. Afterwards he experienced her limitations as an art form. He felt too bound by the subject and the circumstances. Finally he had the impression of being stuck and repeating himself. He needed a different and more adequate means of expression. That is why he experimented with drawings on light-sensitive paper, which allowed him to ignore the subject but automatically brought him closer to drawing and painting.(..) as his photographic adventure faded away, the process of painting grew in him. He tried different techniques: watercolor, gouache, oil paint, acrylic. (..) In recent times, Roger Vansevenant paints the simple things of life, the landscape, the still life, but in his own way. The figures have mostly disappeared from his work. But still it happens that in the folds of a black leather armchair he discovers the flanks of a mountain range that irresistibly turn him into a new journey. His fairy tale world is filled with angry and joyful paths. "

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Photo and Biography : www.dbnl.org/tekst/

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More Biographical data : http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/

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Belgium 1965 "50th Anniversary of the Founding of Toc H. Movement of Talbot House, Poperinge" (1) [Photo] Sc(633)

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Emil Ruder

[Switzerland] (b 1914/d 1970)

"Emil Ruder was a typographer and graphic designer who helped Armin Hofmann form the Basel School of Design and establish the style of design known as Swiss Design. He taught that, above all, typography's purpose was to communicate ideas through writing. He placed a heavy importance on sans-serif typefaces and his work is both clear and concise, especially his typography. (..) Ruder was born in Zurich, Switzerland on March 20, 1914 and was trained as a typesetter in Basil from 1929 to 1933 , before arriving in Paris to continue his studies in 1938...(..) Ruder published in 1967 a basic grammar of typography titled 'Typographie'; the text was published in German, English and French and helped spread and propagate the Swiss Style, and became a basic text for graphic design and typography programs in Europe and North America. (..) "

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Biography : Wikipedia

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More biographical data : www.designishistory.com/

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Photo and some of Ruder large contribution to Graphic Design : www: //80magazine.wordpress.com/

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Switzerland 1960 "Publicity Issue / 50th Anniversary of the Swiss League for Cancer Control" (4,4,1) [Photo (Courvoisier)] Sc(378)

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Bert Jager

[Germany] (b 1919/d 1998)

The Artist in 1988

"Bert Jäger went to school in Karlsruhe and studied from 1934 to 1939 at the Art Academy , with Hermann Goebel and Siegfried Czerny ,among others. (..) he was wounded in Battle after being recruited by Wehrmacht in 1939...after some time in a Vienna hospital,he was again sent to the front where he became a prisoner of the Soviet Army in 1944...After his return from captivity Bert Jäger also resumed his artistic activity (..) In the following years he received numerous public contracts, so he designed, among other 1958 a mural for the Interior Ministry in Stuttgart and a year later, together with Richard Bampi a ceramic wall in the employment office in Freiburg.(..) In addition, Jäger worked as a commercial artist : he designed stamps, illustrated books and worked as a photographer.(..) In the early sixties, Bert Jäger - influenced by Abstract Expressionism - made the transition to gestural painting. His versatile activities as a photographer, graphic designer and writer were incorporated into work and influenced his collage-like style between color fields and figuration. (..)"

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Photo and Biography : wikipedia

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Germany 1956 "Humanitarian Relief Fund" (4,4,4) [Litho] Sc(B350,...,B353) [ Image credit of Stampworld ]

Germany 1957 "5th Centenary of Freiburg University" (1) [Litho] Sc(766)

Germany 1957 "Humanitarian Relief Fund" (4,4,4) [Litho] Sc(B356,...,B359) [ Image credit of Stampworld ]

Germany 1959 "Humanitarian Relief and Welfare Funds" (4,4,1) [Litho] Sc(B371)

Germany 1961 "Humanitarian Relief Funds" (4,4,4) [Litho] Sc(B376,...,B379) [ Image credit of Stampworld ]

Germany 1963 "Freedom from Hunger" (1) [Litho][Recess] Sc(856)

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Roy Gjertson

[USA] (b 1926)

"A native Minnesotan, Roy Gjertson served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a radio operator and gunner aboard B-24 bombers. When the war ended, he returned to civilian life and to his first love: drawing. After graduating from art school, he took a series of jobs as an illustrator for aviation companies in the Los Angeles area. (..) In 1969, he was hired as an illustrator and designer for General Dynamics in San Diego. During two decades there, he drew everything from B-24s to space shuttles to cruise missiles, the images enlivening pamphlets, proposals, reports, in-house publications. He also found time to illustrate several books..(..)"

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Photo and Biographical Data : www.sandiegouniontribune.com/
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USA 1963 "The Battle of Gettisburg" (1) [Recess] Sc(1180)

USA 1975 "Mariner 10" (1) [Recess][Litho] Sc(1557)

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Stig Asberg

[Sweden] (b 1909/d 1968)

" Stig Asberg studied at Konstfack in Stockholm and became relatively famous in 1936 with illustrations made for a book by Gustav Sandgren...(..) He then developed a close cooperation with several Swedish writers., and apart from illustrations for books, he also designed postage stamps and notably etchings, often of landscapes. He was heavily influenced by the experience of living in several of the countries around the Baltic Sea as a child and by the harsh conditions under which he lived as a youth, on the verge of starvation, in Södermanland. (..) There are works by Åsberg in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm and the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, among others.

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Biography : Wikipedia

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Photo and more Biographical Data : www/geni.com

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Sweden 1955 "Death Centenary of Atterbom (Poet)" (2,1) [Engr (Sven Ewert)][Recess] Sc(484,485)

Sweden 1958 "Birth Centenary of Selma Lagerlof" (3,1) [Engr (Sven Ewert)][Recess] Sc(532,...,534)

Sweden 1959 "Birth Centenary of Von Heidenstam (poet)" (2,1) [Engr (A. Walhorn)][Recess] Sc(541,542)

Sweden 1960 "Birth Centenary of Froding (poet)" (2,1) [Engr (Czeslaw Slania)][Recess] Sc(561)

Sweden 1961 "Nobel Prize Winners" (3,1) [joint effort with V. Forsberg][Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(603,...,605)

Sweden 1962 "Nobel Prize Winners" (2,2,2) [joint effort with V. Forsberg][Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(617,618) [ image credit of stampworld ]

Sweden 1963 "300th Anniversary of the Swedish board of Health" (3,1) [Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(629,630,631)

Sweden 1963 "Nobel Prize Winners" (2,2,2) [joint effort with V. Forsberg][Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(637,638) [ image credit of stampworld ]

Sweden 1964 "Nobel Prize Winners" (2,2,2) [joint effort with V. Forsberg][Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(673,674) [ image credit of stampworld ]

Sweden 1965 "Swedish Monuments (3rd Series)" (2,1) [Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(677,678)

Sweden 1965 "Nobel Prize Winners" (2,2,2) [joint effort with V. Forsberg][Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(673,674) [ image credit of stampworld

Sweden 1966 "Birth Centenary of Nathan Soderblom" (2,1) [Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(693,694)

Sweden 1966/1967 "Various Designs" (5,5,1) [Engr (H. Gutschmidt)][Recess] Sc(720)

Sweden 1966 "Death Centenary of Carl Almqvist" (2,1) [Engr (Czeslaw Slania)][Recess] Sc(707,708)

Sweden 1966 "Nobel Prize Winners" (2,2,2) [joint effort with V. Forsberg][Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(710,711) [ image credit of stampworld

Sweden 1967 "85th Birthday of King Gustav VI Adolf" (2,1) [Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(765,766)

Sweden 1967 "Nobel Prize Winners" (2,1)[Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(769,770) [ ima ge credit of stampworld

Sweden 1968 "Nobel Prize Winners" (2,2,2) [Engr (A. Wallhorn)][Recess] Sc(804,805) [ image credit of stampworld ]

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Roger Chapelet

[France] (b 1903/d 1995)

"Roger Chapelet encountered the marine world for the first time when going aboard the "Rollon" , where his brother was a radio officer, in Marseille harbour. It was the outset of his career as a marine painter. At that time he made a set of paintings in differents harbours : Le Havre, Antwerp, Rotterdam, London ... He boarded a ship for the first time in 1929 to discover new horizons and then he got on sailboats to paint the fishing expeditions on the Banks of Newfoundland and in Greenland. In the 1930s he became the poster designer of main French Shipowners and in 1936 he was promoted to "Painter of the French Navy" and became a member of the Marine Academy.

Invited by some shipowners he boarded some cargo boats between France and Algeria. Then he traveled around the world on cargo-boats of course but also on three or four masters ships . During the second World War, he served between 1939 and 1945 as a supply officer of the Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, then in Indochina in 1946, while keeping on painting different operations fields and naval engagements. Returning to the civilian life, he went being the poster designer of several compagnies : Compagnie Mixte, Paquet, Générale Transantlantique, Fraissinet etc. "

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Biography and Photo : www.montpon-les-orgues.fr

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Some of Roger Chapelet Work :www : peintres-officiels-de-la-marine.com

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Republic of Congo 1962 "Air Mail / 'Point Noire' International Fair" (1) [Photo (Delrieu)] Sc(C6)

Comoro Islands 1964 "Native Canoe" (4,4,4) [Photo] Sc(61,62,C10,C11) [ Images credit of Stampworld ]

Wallis and Futuna Islands 1965 "Inter-Islands Ship" (1) [Photo] Sc(168) [ Images credit of Stampworld ]

Gabon 1965 "Air Mail / Old Ships" (4,4,4) [Photo] Sc(C30,...,C33) [ Images credit of Stampworld ]

Comoro Islands 1966 "Comoro Views" (4,4,4) [Photo] Sc(67,68,C18,C19) [ Images credit of Stampworld ]

Central African Republic 1968 "River Craft" (5,5,5) [Engr (G. Aufschneider 10f)(P. Forget 30f)(M. Monvoisin 50f)(J. Miermont 100f,130f)][Recess] Sc(100,...,112,C62,C63) [ Images credit of Stampworld ]